This rough-copy poem-draft, composed around 1882 (RWF) or 1884 (THJ), was found
among Dickinson's papers after her death. For a variant fair-copy draft of the
poem, see A 333; for related fragments, see A 636a. Dickinson may have jotted down the fragments
on the envelope while working on the rough-copy draft of the poem.

One editorial notation is penciled on A 332: reverse, below the last line of the
text, MLT?: 98 (3). The notation may refer to the number
of the envelope, and subdivision within the envelope, in which Mabel Loomis Todd
stored this unbound manuscript. In her "GUIDE to the
use of the microfilm of THE EMILY DICKINSON
MANUSCRIPTS" Millicent Todd Bingham notes that Mabel Loomis Todd affixed
the numbers 80–98 to the envelopes containing fascicles or individual
poems, while Bingham herself affixed all numbers greater than 98 to the remainder
of the envelopes. Presumably, Todd, or possibly Bingham, also penciled the
notation "98 (3)" on the manuscript itself.

< a332.txt.1; poem >
Pompless no Lifecan passaway -The
lowliestCareerTo the same pag-eant wendsit's way
as that
+Exalted
+promotedhere -
How cordial
is the
mystery
The Hos -pitablePallA thiswaybeckonsspaciously
There is a Throne
world
for all
Chair
SealEachoccupant anEarl